It’s hard to believe that we’re almost at the end of the high school football season here at the Reporter-Telegram.

If it weren’t for a couple six-man football teams, we would already be out of it and putting all our concentration on the basketball season.

For many teams in our area, they already have, and the barrage of preseason basketball tournaments are upon us.

But let’s for the moment recognize the Trinity Chargers for making it to the TAPPS Division I Six-Man championship game after a 23-15 overtime win over Baytown Christian on a soggy and cold Friday night in Cherokee.

In our football preview section, when we made our predictions for the year, I had predicted that Trinity would end up being the best story of the year. The Chargers had plenty of talent coming back from a team that had reached the state quarterfinals the year before.

Well, the Chargers are carrying the football banner for the Tall City, and they will be playing for one more week with the opportunity to bring home some state hardware.

The Chargers will play Houston Emery-Weiner in the state title game at 7 p.m. Thursday in Cedar Creek.

But Trinity is not the only six-man team in our immediate coverage area that’s still going, as Garden City has a Class 1A Division I quarterfinal game against two-time defending state champion Crowell at 6 p.m. Monday in Abilene. The game was rescheduled Friday because of inclement weather, but the Bearkats have a chance to get to the state semifinal round for the first time since 2010, when they were undefeated state champions.

The Bearkats face a tall order in winning the state title again because they not only have to beat the two-time defending state champ, but they face either No. 1 Borden County or No. 2 Happy in the state title game.

Like it or not, six-man football is still going strong out in this part of the state, and those teams will continue to carry the banner until the big schools can finally get over the recent hump of losing in the early rounds of the playoffs.

With the way that trend is going, that might take a while.

— It seems like Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo can’t get over the hump of just staying healthy.

Two broken collarbones in one season is just brutal, and the Cowboys’ season is spiraling down the toilet, even though they’re in the mediocre NFC East.

A season of hope has turned into a season of nightmare.

Who would have guessed that the Houston Texans would be enjoying a better season with their revolving door at quarterback?

But here’s the thing: While the Cowboys rely heavily on Romo, that’s not the only real reason they’re losing.

Sure, they have suffered some key injuries, but that just proves that this was flawed team to begin with.

There’s not much depth in certain areas, there are quite a few holes in the defense — namely the secondary — and there doesn’t seem to be that overall desire to do whatever it takes to win. Cowboys linebacker Sean Lee, who seems to be in and out of the lineup almost as much as Romo, challenged his team to do whatever it takes.

“If you're not motivated to find a way to win, you need to get off the team,” Lee was quoted in the Dallas Morning News. “We need to make a move now. We have no more room for errors. We have to find a way to win games, get on a run if we want to save the season.”

That’s a great attitude to have, although I’m afraid it might be too late to save this season.